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Patented Dec. 21, 1948 'STATES PATEK? Atrice Application August 4, 1945, Seia'lNo. 608,891 In Sweden December'Zl, 1944 3 Claims. l

The present invention relates to a stamp which is preferably combined with a pen or the like, and as such can be carried in a pocket or the like with the stamp tools enclosed and well protected in inoperative position, from which the change to operative position can be easily and quickly effected. The stamp according to the invention is provided with a sleeve arranged as a container for a stamping pad and a stamping plate adapted to be inserted in the sleeve, the said stamping plate being pivoted to a handle. The stamp is substantially characterized by the fact that a casing portion of the sleeve is adapted to be pushed into a seco-nd sleeve and that the said casing portion is partially cut away so that the remaining casing portion substantially forms the container receiving the stamping pad.

Some embodiments chosen by way oi example oi a stamp according to the invention in the form of and combined with a refill pen are i1- lustrated on the accompanying drawing.

Fig. l shows the combined pen and stamp partly in side view, partly in axial section. Fig. 2 shows the same in a position with the sleeves drawn apart, Fig. 3 shows the stamp in stamping position,

Figs. 4 and 5 are gures, corresponding to Figs. l and 2, of a modied embodiment. Fig. 6 is a side view, partly in section of a further modication.

On the drawing the reference numerals I and 2 designate the sleeves which are displaceable relatively to one another. One sleeve I is in its free end provided with a conical, turnable portion 3 contains a pen mechanism of any kind for lead or other refills 4. The other part of the sleeve I is formed as a container 5 for a stamping pad 6. For this purpose part of the casing of the sleeve is cut away from the other end so that the rernaining part, which substantially forms the container, obtains the form of a semi-cylinder or the like. The bottom 'I of the container is bent so as to form a hook 8 which is engaged by the stamping plate 9 in the position shown in Figs. l and 2 so that it can not be drawn out axially in relation to the sleeves from the inoperative position with the stamp types I0 against the stamping pad in the container.

The handle of the stamping plate consists of a rod II one end of which is pivoted to the plate, the other end being rigid with a slit ring I2 which is displaceable and guided in the sleeve 2 and which has resilient contact with the said sleeve. When the stamp is made ready for stampwhich, together with a part of the pen, l

(Cl. IUI-333) ing from the collapsed position in Fig. 1, the sleeves are drawn apart to the position shown in Fig. 2 in which the sleeve 2 has got clear from the container 5. In this position the stamping plate has been stopped by the engagement of the hook 8, and therefore the ring glides relatively to the sleeve 2 to a position close to the end of the sleeve. Then the sleeve 2 and thus also the rod 2 are swung to a position substan tially at right angles to the stamping plate until a stop I'3 on the rod Il contacts the plate and,

prevents further swinging. During this swinging the sleeve can be displaced towards the stamping plate to rest with its end on the same. Then the sleeve 2 serving as stamp handle is moved in the direction towards the lead end, the stamping plate being somewhat displaced into the sleeve I towards a rubber cushion I4 or the like within the sleeve so that it gets clear from the hook 8 and can be raised for stamping.

At the collapse the stamping plate is moved obliquely into the container 5 and one plate end is pushed towards the cushion I4 so that the other end gets clear from the hook 8 and then can be moved into engagement therewith. The sleeve 2 is drawn out and swung to the position shown in Fig. 2 in which it can be pushed over the container 5 in order to serve as pen holder together with the sleeve I.

In order to limit the displacement movement of the sleeve 2 in relation to the rod Il, the said rod is preferably provided With a link member I5 which with last movement is connected With a link member It xed in the sleeve 2. The link member I5 is made in the form of a resilient hook, the free end of which Il, when the sleeve I has been inserted in the sleeve 2, has resilient contact with the stamping plate and presses the same against the stamping pad.

The embodiments shown in Figs. il, 5 and 6 differ from those previously described therein that the link members consist of parts which are displaceable telescopically one within the other.

The details may of course be varied in a great many ways in comparison with what has been described above and shown on the drawing without going beyond the scope of the invention. Thus, the sleeve i can be formed as a fountain pen or container for refills and at the same time the sleeve 2 can, if desired, be formed as a lell pen or vice versa. Other combinations with the stamping device are also possible. The sleeves can also form casings for pipe scratchers, pipe cleaners and the like.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A stamping assembly comprising in combination a slotted sleeve, a stamp pad in said sleeve, a stamp plate adapted to be inserted through the slot of said sleeve for Contact With said pad, and a telescopic handle pivotally attached to said stamp plate and adapted to telescope on said sleeve in closed position of the stamp plate and upon itself in operable position.

2. A stamping assembly as claimed in claim 1, in which said telescopic handle comprises a resilient U-shaped member slidably secured to said telescopic handle, one of the free ends of said member forming the pivotal attachment with the stamp plate, and the other free end resiliently pressing said stamp plate against the stamp pad when the plate is in its closed position.

3. A stamping assembly as claimed in claim 1,.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Reynolds Jan. 15, 1889 Number 

